Nutrition Professor eats cake and loses weight…It’s not me.

A Kansas State University nutrition professor started a calorie-controlled diet based on high-fat snacks. He wanted to know if he could eat 1800 calories a day, with cakes making up a good portion of the diet, and still get favorable lab results (a lower cholesterol, etc.).

He wanted to know if the composition of his diet, macronutrients (fat, carbohydrates, protein) mattered, or was it total calories. Could a diet rich in cake affect his lab results as long as he reduced calories and lost weight?

This is not a research study by any stretch of the imagination, it’s just one guy doing “an experiment” on himself. The results may surprise you…listen to the podcast here.

Tom
When he talks about energy, he’s talking about calories from the food he eats. It appears from other studies, that if you are overweight, weight loss will help control high blood pressure and cholesterol etc. However, as you know, there are lots of skinny people walking around with these problems so it’s not as simple as losing weight. Food quality is imperative for good health too.

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